SAPINDACE^ 39 



Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate 3 



Flowers in drooping racemes: stamens 5, much exserted: leaves 3-foliolate, serrulate.. . 4 



1. .ffiSCULUS, Linnaeus. 

 1. iE. Califomicus, Nntt. Leaves palmately 4-7-foIiolate, (Buckeye.) 



2. ACEK, Toumefort. 



1. A. macropliylluni, Pursh. Yellowish flowers in dense racemes: fruit hairy. 



2. A. ciroinatum, Pursh. Corymbs 10-20 flowered; sepals red or purplish. 



3. A. glabrum, Torr. Sepals and petals greenish yellow: filaments naked. 



3. NEGXJNDO, Moench. 



1. N. Californicum, T. & G. Calyx minute: petals none, dioecious. (Box-Elder.) 



4. STAPHYLEA, Linnaeus. 



2. S. Bolanderi, Gr, Leaflets broad, stipellate: fruit bladdery. Shasta. 



ANACARJDIACEJl. 



BiUUS, Linnseus. 



Slender deciduous shrubs: leaves 3-foliolate: fruit compressed globose. 



Mowers in dense axillary panicles: fruit smooth, dry, whitish ,, 1 



Flowers in short soaly-braoted spikes : fruit hairy, gummy, scarlet 2 



Stout, diffuse evergreen shrubs: leaves simple, coriaceous: fruit ovoid. 



Flowers rose-color: leaves ovate on short petioles 3 



Flowers yellowish: leaves lanceolate on slender petioles 4 



1. R. diversiloba, T, & Gr. Stems erect or climbing by rootlets (Poison Oak). 



2. R. aromatica, Ait. var. trilobata, Gr. Diffusely slender-branched. 



3. E. integrifolia, B. & H Leaves entire or spinosely-toothed: fruit red, frosty. 



4. R. laurina, Nutt. Leaves glaucous, entire: panicles 2-4 inches long. 



LEGJJmmOSM. 



§ 1. Stamens distinct: shrubs (except No. 1). 



Leaves palmately Sfoliolate: yellow flowers in terminal close racemes. 1 



Stiff, much branched, evergreen: flowers red-purple, solitary, axillary 2 



Leaves pinnate: flowers purple in dense axillary spikes: petal 1 



